Barnsley brothers

Ernest (born Arthur Ernest Barnsley (1863 –1926) but known as Ernest Barnsley) and Sidney Howard Barnsley (25 February 1865 – 25 September 1926) were Arts and Crafts movement master builders, furniture designers and makers associated with Ernest Gimson. In the early 20th century they had workshops at Sapperton, Gloucestershire.

Sidney's son Edward continued the family tradition, making fine furniture according to his father's philosophy, and became a figurehead in his own right.

They were also associated with the designers and makers Gordon Russell, the Dutch furniture designer-craftsman Peter Waals, or van der Waals, the architect-designer Norman Jewson (who was Ernest Barnsley's son-in-law) and the architect Robert Weir Schultz. Sidney became involved as a founder of the short lived Kenton & Co. furniture business along with Sir Mervyn MacCartney, Reginald Blomfield, William Lethaby, Ernest Gimson, Stephen Webb and Colonel Harold Esdaile Malet..

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